{"id":351,"date":"2003-12-17T17:17:23","date_gmt":"2003-12-18T00:17:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-12-17T17:17:23","modified_gmt":"2003-12-18T00:17:23","slug":"the-warped-woof-of-modern-conservatism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/17\/the-warped-woof-of-modern-conservatism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Warped Woof of Modern &#8220;Conservatism&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I do hope John Derbyshire did not contribute to <a href=http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/store\/book_group.asp#treasury1><i>The National Review Treasury of Classic Children\u2019s Literature<\/i><\/a>. Here, a bedtime story from <a href=http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/thecorner\/03_12_14_corner-archive.asp#021359>Derb<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><i>Actually, my favorite story of victor&#8217;s justice is the treatment given to the defeated Sultan Bayezid &#8220;the Thunderbolt&#8221; by Timur after the battle of Ankara in 1402. Bayezid was pulled around in a cage in Timur&#8217;s baggage train till he died, and his wife was forced to serve naked at Timur&#8217;s banquet table.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>(Brought to my attention by <a href=http:\/\/justinlogan.typepad.com\/justinlogancom\/2003\/12\/neocon_straw_me.html>Justin Logan<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do hope John Derbyshire did not contribute to The National Review Treasury of Classic Children\u2019s Literature. Here, a bedtime story from Derb: Actually, my favorite story of victor&#8217;s justice is the treatment given to the defeated Sultan Bayezid &#8220;the Thunderbolt&#8221; by Timur after the battle of Ankara in 1402. Bayezid was pulled around in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}